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UUA and the NYC Comptroller's Office

In early 2002, the office for New York City Employees' Pension Funds
contacted the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), asking for our assistance in shareholder activism. They
wished to file resolutions with several of the companies with whom they have
holdings: Stride Rite, NCR, Raytheon, Federated Department Stores, Home Depot,
Lowe's, and Walmart.

However, the city of New York would not have found it easy to send
representatives to the annual meetings in locations as disparate as Dayton and
Cincinnati, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Atlanta, and Boston. The UUA, with its
congregations in cities across the country, was in a much better position to
represent New York City at the annual meetings. The UUA contacted the ministers
of congregations in each of these areas, and these representatives of Unitarian
Universalist values agreed to represent the New York City Comptroller's Office
at the meetings of the several companies.

Walmart
was addressed by the Rev. Rhett Baird of the UU Fellowship of Fayetteville, AR.